today my guest in the studio. now. all over the world will gather in the russian capital to discuss. what. created twenty years ago to deal with emergency situations worldwide the new body approved its efficiency very quickly one of its operations was so difficult it's made it into the guinness book of records since then has been improving its reputation in russia. working in different locations it has accumulated unique know how that it's now ready to share. says the forum. is also

a great opportunity to gain valuable experience from their foreign colleagues. thank you for. the first time that russia is hosting an international forum. representing the fifty seven countries the gathering is taking place in moscow can be regarded as a sign of international recognition of russia's achievements in rescue work and fire fighting. convening in moscow for the first time and the fact that it's being held in moscow is certainly sort of a recognition of russia over the past twenty years during which natural disasters jointly with the international community so. yes of course and we hope that it. follow well they be held in moscow to know you know these are

international gatherings or rescuers and firefighters it's like international youth passwords which are used to have in the past will they be meeting every year which is the way it's not necessarily maybe every year or every two years but it will be held regularly so there's going to be regular exercises will be held at the emergency ministry training ground on the sidelines of the forum to demonstrate our skills and abilities what russian technologies are you going to demonstrate and how exactly are you going to surprise your foreign colleagues first of all we will demonstrate high emergency to colleges which we use when it's necessary to rescue people and extinguish fires this is russian aviation complexes are robots and one clear or so who participate in relief operations. so it's everything that can save human lives and use we were not there. but the mission was it necessary to demonstrate these technologies to foreign colleagues is it that they don't have

similar technologies meet or do you just want to show them that russia also has advanced. no certainly not will there will what kind of technologies and equipment our colleagues abroad have on one hand this demonstration is a chance to share experience and on the other hand this is a possibility for us to advance our innovations on the world market and we've learned from our own experience that this is necessary for rescue operations but. tell me mr grossman when you talk about innovation do you mean some specific piece of equipment such as a vehicle a saw our radar or is it a technology an organizational aspects. of these or it's you cannot because a good song in itself will be just an ordinary tool without a person cooperate so that's why we're go into focus on technology we're not going to just demonstrated how. such will demonstrated in combination with an eel someone

who six aircraft to give her and they create the global radius technology near craft again airlift a helicopter to any part of the world where the helicopter will then carry out rescue reconnaissance or other operations but this is our technology. as far as i know the russian emergencies ministry is a member of the international civil defense organization it's an advisory body but i've talked to your colleagues including the minister many times there's an opinion that a supranational emergency situations reaction center a kind of international emergencies minister should be set up are you going to discuss this question as a moscow forum. do you think this idea will be implemented in the near future or not. booking it well naturally the forum is ready to hold a free to use caution on any subject the most urgent theme in a source of universal concern which i use hard to make our world safe for him in

terms of catastrophes in natural calamities that are striking now some of our international partners have even refused to attend a forum they say that about to me when people in india are being stranded in the flood stricken areas of the world this is what worries us. but practical interest will certainly promote good discussion of we should unite our efforts or to fill in the they can mean sphere is where the work of rescuers and firefighters has been insufficient if you should get united this is what the forum is going to discuss what do you mean by uniting efforts that is it new choices can switch over it existed the moment or is it the creation of a supra national body like the world government a center that's going to monitor the global situation. with the you know we are totally devoid of such great commissions because there is the united nations the year. union in europe of korea the shanghai cooperation organization for example

that there are plenty of such platforms which cover the entire world but we are talking about him i told him details that make a rescue operation more energetic an effective and help avoid intermissions in our rescue work this is what we have learned from our prop tickle experience if you are finding a fire you cannot make it a fifteen minute commercial break this work should never interrupt the sooner it starts the better but you are a screen people is exactly the same we all know the parameters of saving people after earthquakes there is a chance to find survivors only in the first two hours after an earthquake and after that the only thing rescuers can do is to clear away the rubble that is why we are not going to discuss this issues in bureaucratic terms who will think of how to complete international mechanisms with a more efficient actions to college years well more persistent information sharing

which may result in some large scale managerial solutions. i would not use the word global name maybe or regional for example the minister we usually use just said that you are avoid the bureaucratic on the dishes but for a professional and bishan is the russian emergencies ministry has plenty and i know that your colleagues are proud of being nearly the best service in the world but still is there anything which the russian then it's true of an urgency situation can still learn from foreign colleagues use. previously of course there is can you tell us about it in more detail. well first of all we have a program for preparing our central. rescue team which will take a special pride in it to undergo an international test we want this team to be all recognized is the most efficient unit have

a rescue team it should be out on the international list of top priority teams. we're learning from other teams of such status and i believe our team will pass this test with owners casual. all right what about the vice versa process does the russian emergency ministry teach professionalism for the countries in your sleep of course it does and they know very well what they can learn from us. and they dress us persistently asking us to people and so we do. for instance so we have classes for a vietnamese rescue or skin against you also we train rescuers you know higher and secondary educational institutions and in different centers for firefighters or rescuers and so on which of if we teach her colleagues you know other countries as

well and for instance we are opening intense classes in serbia for all balkan states i can mention a driving school in rwanda even though it was in the heart of africa on september the first if there was a long line of young men who wanted to lay down their guns and learn to do it peaceful job of rescuers. training is a mutual proceso sometimes we were in and take tests and sometimes we teach others more to firefighters for instance which. most far fighters sold the see another nearby countries such as the polled experience an eastern europe had to learn far fighting tactics in the soviet union and today they were saying that those step ticks are really worth of. foreign colleagues receive any practical training and the emergency ministry teams in russia. can one just come home and

find it in the music farm and extinguishing a fire place. well first of all it's not that scary i have to say companies that actually i know it isn't but people may get surprised. and secondly you learn and take born in exercises together moreover we participate to gether in search and rescue in a fire extinguisher in humanitarian operations and we are always happy to meet our graduates there as we know there are partners. to send our workers to learn from their us or our chinese colleagues. and we certainly to all countries may know that we are mostly interested in the experience of the g. eight countries also we like original classes for instance seem to poor it has a good training base who are her colleagues from patients states who get together to learn we don't just learn their standards we also learn working in particular

conditions which our colleagues demonstrate to us the greater good of course. says he but i think a director of the international department at the russian ministry spotlight will be back shortly after a break so we'll continue this interview in less than a minute stay with. 1930's england and france tried to reason with hitler germany. gets its way. to safety net for themselves nineteen thirty nine the whole of europe is in war efforts to establish a system of collective security nine hundred thirty eight failed and it's still on the agenda. the lessons to be learned from the munich agreement on.

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welcome back to spotlight i'm now going over and just in the mind of the my guest in the studio today is he would direct to all the international department had the russian emergencies ministry. at the you said some states wouldn't be able to participate in this forum in moscow due to emergencies in their countries. you mentioned india. what other countries are having emergencies no i mean it was at the park just thinking back you stand that china was there were expecting risk your strong china but today said they were having a rough time with the landslides but they will send some representatives anyway to

go also some african states didn't send their workers but even if it didn't they have some terrible floods in europe how did they couple cope with them all right for instance friday we signed of cooperation agreement with croatia of course we invited them to the forum so we left croatia on friday and the next day began. was filled with water because it was there for a colleague said thank you but we cannot come now. is the russian emergency ministry working in any other countries at the moment it certainly is can you tell us where those in china india and pakistan know nocturnally we are participating in three you are just human nature in operations presently as for pakistan we have already sent emergency help there now we are beginning the deployment all for the second stage of the operation but of the world will continue sending tan some

medicines and other supplies and we'll do it in cooperation with our. professional partner with the international civil defense organization that your mantra but also we participated in new york call to help we support the world health organization and the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs these are our partners oversee the entire international response framework. and the third stage of the operation starts today in serbia our mines clearers have just finished to working with our rescue workers are ready to respond we have current projects for supplying food for instance will be sending flour and other supplies into armenia as well. and afghanistan.

as the director of the international department give us the number of countries that the emergency ministry has helped over the past year. if not the fifteen countries did i mean in two thousand and nine or in two thousand and ten i mean in two thousand and ten. so you held fifteen countries already yes we have and we are marking our twentieth anniversary now well let's look at the history of the russian and the agencies ministry in a report by spotlights to me that. fifty thousand lives will last in armenia in the speak talk earthquake more than twenty years ago cd was destroyed the rescue operation was chaotic so that officials one treaty for disaster on the scale us and was learned the decision was made to create a special rescue workers now which is considered to be one of the best in europe if there's an emergency situation in any part of the world spirits first cisterns.

christmas two thousand and four tsunami is heat countries killing more than two hundred twenty five thousand people a russian rescue helicopter help search for survivors and planes brought more than one hundred fifty tons of humanitarian aid to the devastated region when new orleans was hit by hurricane katrina was there to help in the aftermath of one of the west nature in america's history russian risk is delivered more than sixty tons of humanitarian aid to the hurricane victims. the russian rescue team also took creations in myanmar two years ago when the country was heat by a tropical cycle in which killed at least seventy eight thousand people and left thousands more homeless this year the russian hospital was sent to haiti to help victims of the earthquake the doctors there performed around fifty operations

russian psychologists also helped survivors cope with the shock of the work of the russian rescue organizations humanitarian missions virtually covers the world each year and more than one hundred thousand people that's the equivalent of the russian teams saving twelve people in our. lives. looking back over the history of ministry was there a particular rescue operation in which are people still remembered as the most difficult legendary something or do you consider every new operation that's ahead of you had to be the hardest one to go of course every emergency situation is unique in its own way and the same applies to you operations. during the past twenty years there for more than three hundred twenty operations in other countries which included humanitarian operations school search and rescue operations medical

help and of accusation and fire extinguishing food with the team of course. we specially remember our first operations in the early one nine hundred ninety s. immediately after our agency was established we became involved in the international response system. and actually we surprised everyone when we beat many european countries and showed up in syria in response to the un call for help it is the well ahead of many other countries that were involved in the operation he's going to chose this story that if you go in one thousand nine hundred ninety three we signed an agreement with the office of the united nations high commissioner for refugees and we learned from experience self swedish and german crews. we saw that things were going bad in yugoslavia where they had the war ahead the battle of who. had breast cheese and of course russia couldn't stay

away from it but i wouldn't just send supplies here we said we would have to fully participate in the humanitarian operation. and we made our decision in december the government approved it in january and in early february or in the crew when we departed from the ganske and. of course we selected professionals who knew how to drive in the mountains they arrived in belgrade loaded their trucks immediately and two days later they were unloading the dam in syria of a book aided city that really needed humanitarian aid food and the made a sense of futility to really save people from perishing of you know our current drove through the mountains in the cold of winter and along the way they helped this we should seen their vehicles that were stuck because we had come us six by six trucks with

a great drivers so on the one hand. this is how you establish close ties with calling us from other countries and on the other hand the un declared immediately that they couldn't do without the russian crew anymore and indeed for the next afford to seventy years we were doing un tasks all the time but we were delivering aid to the most difficult areas of a closed and calm swer battles were reaching across the front lines and so on representing the us such was our first experience that began in one thousand nine hundred three so this is showing good headlines does the russian emergency ministry rescues twelve people in our charge that makes for one person in every five minutes or over three hundred people a day that's true and i believe it is does that mean russia is such an unsafe country. that on into all countries our according to the

international statistics our country doesn't stand out in comparison pakistan for example has twenty million people in the flood risk zone that's a big number. and russia fires were the main threat last summer for the forest fires the bog fires there was the smog this proved that prevention is probably more crucial than rescue. the emergency ministry is an extremely efficient structure. why won't it take the job of preventing such catastrophes or is it whether to do so. but if we are ready to do so prevention is one of our key tasks actually along with eliminating the consequences of disasters. there are other sectors in american is news that should be functioning along with the prevention system of the russian emergency ministry indeed in those four years

demonstrated the need for it to come prehensile approach both at the national and international levels. and we did receive significant assistance from other countries during this period it was naturally more entitle to speak about international aspects and studios were helped by those advanced technologies that you mentioned to you know we gratefully received assistance from the air forces of many other countries and we look at them as russia's launch territory and requires more bille equipment than the aircraft that can be here to do somewhere else tomorrow helping to stop fires as they approach c.d.'s and other important infrastructure objects. so the international community in our case saw that it is very efficient to invite a specific aide put it because you know you will take tsunami for instance what

they were asking for any kind of help anyone as they objectively needed it there but here in the european part of russia we were grateful for advanced technologies and indeed they sent us a very experienced crew is that we're just side by side with our foreign men but if they sent aircraft and helicopters that were working in food coronation with already or forces thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind that my guest in this theater they must be national come direct to all the end of the us. department of the russian and the agency's ministry and that's it for the hour from all of us here if you want to have your say and spotlight quite some of the morning to you think i speak through the next i'm going to talk to me a line and i'll do no ads on t.v. dot are you and let's keep spotlight interactive movie back with more for some comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay in our teeth and

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